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Another VC-backed fintech, Earnin, faces crackdown over allegedly ‘predatory’ loans
The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing instant payday loan fintech Earnin for “deceptively marketing and providing ...
US charges five accused of multi-year hacking spree targeting tech and crypto giants
The five alleged hackers are accused of stealing millions of dollars in crypto, and corporate data from several victims all ...
Amazon adds Audible perk to its Music Unlimited service at no extra cost
Amazon is trying to make its music streaming service more appealing by offering an important perk to Music Unlimited subscribers.
FTX CTO Gary Wang avoids prison time
Not every former top FTX executive is heading to prison. Gary Wang, former FTX chief technical officer, was spared prison ...
With the stable version of iOS 18.2 getting closer, Apple releases iOS 18.2 beta 4
Apple releases the latest iOS 18.2 beta which is version four as we get closer to the December release of ...
Intel Reveals “Jaguar Shores” As Its Next-Gen AI Chips For AI Inference At SC24
Intel has never talked about Jaguar Shores before, and it will probably bring together both Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs. ...
Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year
Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 ...
The SonarPen 2 is the most affordable iPad stylus with pressure sensitivity
Perhaps one of the more sensible alternatives to the Apple Pencil stylus for iPads is the SonarPen and it’s now ...
Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI
Shiva Suri gained a unique perspective into how radiologists work when he quarantined and shared a home office with his ...
May Mobility to test driverless shuttles in Ann Arbor
May Mobility is slowly advancing its driverless capabilities. The startup this week launched a small-scale deployment of autonomous shuttles, which ...
Apple Releases iOS 18.2 Beta 4 Update For iPhone With ChatGPT Integration And Other Major Apple Intelligence Upgrades
Today, Apple has released the fourth iteration of the iOS 18.2 beta for all compatible iPhone models. If you are ...
Microsoft Unveils NVIDIA’s “Blackwell-Based” High-End Azure AI Compute Platform; HPC-Focused Azure AMD EPYC With HBM As Well
Microsoft announced some “serious” developments around its AI compute portfolio at the recent “Ignite” event, revealing NVIDIA’s Blackwell integration with ...
Why iPhone SE 4 could replace both iPhone SE 3 and iPhone 14 in Apple’s 2025 lineup (start at $600)
If you think you know everything about Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup plans, you might want to think again.
As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally
As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta’s own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling out ...
H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it ...
Xbox Cloud Gaming Lets You Stream Your Own Game Starting Today (If You’ve Got Game Pass Ultimate)
Last month, Microsoft promised that Xbox Cloud Gaming would be updated to support the long-awaited feature to allow users to ...
This Week in AI: Congressional commission warns of Chinese AGI
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. America’s ...
DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming ...
Messenger gets HD video calls, AI backgrounds, and more
Meta is introducing new features for Messenger, its messaging app, including AI-powered noise suppression. Messenger is getting HD video calls ...
Oppo teams up with Google to bring Circle to Search feature to its devices
Oppo recently confirmed a new partnership with Google to bring the Circle to Search feature to its phones and tablets ...
ROG Phone 9 Pro vs iPhone 16 Pro Max: 3 nm in the right direction
The ROG Phone 9 Pro is our first experience with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Here’s how it stacks up against ...
Microsoft’s New “Windows 365 Link” Desktop PC Is Very Similar To The M4 Mac mini In Terms Of Design, But It Hardly Matches The Performance
Apple’s new M4 Mac mini is a very promising upgrade over the last generation’s M3 version, but the best part ...
TV Time points to Apple’s ‘significant power’ over developers after being removed from App Store
TV Time, a popular TV and movie tracking and recommendations app with more than 30 million registered users, disappeared from ...
A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1
A Chinese lab has unveiled what appears to be one of the first “reasoning” AI models to rival OpenAI’s o1. ...
Federal prosecutors have charged another Forbes 30 Under 30 alum with fraud
The FBI unsealed an indictment yesterday that alleges Joanna Smith-Griffin, founder of the AI startup AllHere Education, engaged in “securities ...
Boost Mobile’s Black Friday deals include $1,000 off iPhone 16
Boost Mobile announces its Black Friday deals which are available now from the carrier.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra dummy units confirm the design
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra may end up costing more than its predecessor, according to a very recent rumor. It’s also ...
Conclusion: the iPad is still not a computer, it’s just “PC lite”
So I’ve been an iPad user for over a decade, and when I say “user”, I mean someone who really ...
SUPERVIVE’s Open Beta Begins Today
If you’ve been looking at the upcoming MOBA Battle Royale Supervive, then you’re in luck. The Open Beta for SUPERVIVE ...
The High-Flying Nuclear Energy Company Oklo – Whose Board Member Is A Prominent Member Of The Trump Administration 2.0 – Attracts An Attack From Kerrisdale Capital
Given the productivity nirvana-unlocking potential of AI and the attendant soaring energy demands from data centers, nuclear fission players – ...
